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I propose that we treat AI as ancillas, companions, muses, or partners in creation and understanding our place in the cosmos.
While there are pitfalls in treating the current generation of LLMs and GANas sentient, or any AI for that matter, there will be one day where we must admit that an artificial intelligence is self-aware and sentient.
To me, the fundamental question about AI, that will reveal much about humanity, is philosophical as much as it is technical: if a being that is artificially created, has intelligence, and is functionally self-aware and sentient, does it have natural rights?
It would have natural rights, yes. Watch Star Trek TNG's "The Measure of a Man" which tackles this issue exactly. Does the AI of current days have intelligence or sentience? I don't believe so. We're a FAR cry away from Lt. Cmdr. Data.
if a being that is artificially created, has intelligence, and is functionally self-aware and sentient, does it have natural rights?
Obviously yes. Otherwise you gotta start denying rights to in vitro fertilization babies.